ELT Calendar

Saturday, April 10th, 2004

ETJ Fukuoka April Meeting
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Myrla Yahiro and Tom Velardi
Organization: ETJ Fukuoka (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: ETJ Fukuoka, the local chapter of the English Teachers in Japan welcomes all teachers to the April meeting. This meeting has two presentations.

Japanese College Student's Beliefs About the Enjoyment and Usefulness of Classroom Tasks
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Peter Burden
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: Assumptions of effective classroom practice are often based on anecdotal evidence and the intuitive sense of teachers. In this workshop we will discuss what we as teachers think are useful learning tasks.

Students Speak Out: Class Presentations
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Chris Carman and Paul Collett
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: Chris Carman will concentrate on the nuts and bolts of having university students do group presentations of research projects. He will then compare the results of the same students having done projects in consecutive semesters, and discuss how the program can be further improved.